[House  Bill,  No.  242  J 

HOUSE  OF  REPRESENTATIVES,  Dec.  1,  1864.— Read  first 
and  eecond  times,  made  special  order  for  Saturday  morning,  and  or- 
dered to  be  printed. 

[By  Mr.  Russell,  from  Judiciary  Committee. J 


A.  BILL 

To  be  entitled  An  Act  to  provide  for  sequestrating  the  property  of 
persons  liable  to  military  service,  who  have  departed,  or  shall  de- 
part, from  the  Confederate   States  without  permission. 

1  SECTiOiN  1.   The  Congress  of  ike  Confederate   States    of  America 

2  do  enact,  That  if  any  person  shall  voluntarily  depart   from  the 

3  Confederate  States  without  the  permission  of  the   President  or 

4  of  the  General  officer  commanding  the  trnns-Mississippi  depart- 

5  ment,  or  of  an  officer  by  one   of  them  authorized  to  grant  such 

6  permission,  and  if  such  person,  at  the  time  of  such  departure, 

7  shall  be  liable  to  military  service,  according  to  the  laws  of  the 
S  Confederato  States,  he  shall,  from  the  time  of  his  departure,  be 
9  treated,  for  the   purposes  of  this  act,  as  an   alien   cncioy,  and 

10  his  property  shall    be  liable   to  sequestration  and  sale  in  like 

U  manner  as  the  property  of  other  alien  encmicB.     But  all  pro- 

12  ceedings,  for  the  sequestration    and  sale  of  his    property  shall 

13  cease,  and  he  shall  ceaae  to  be  treated  as  an  alien  enemy   by 


2 

14  reason  of  such  departure,  if,  during  the  present  war,  and  before 

14  a    decree    of    sequestration    shall   be   pronounced    against   his 

15  property,  he    shall    return   and    enter    upon    the    performance 

16  of  military  service,  according  to    law.     But   this  act  shall  not 

17  apply  to  persons    who,   at  the    time    of   their  departure,    shall 

18  bona  fide  reside  witnin  the   lines  of  the  enemy,  or  in  a  part  of 

19  the  Confederacy  in  the  military  occupation  of  the  enetay. 

1  Sec.   2.  If    any   person  to  whom   the    preceding  section  ap- 

2  plies,  shall  Toluntarily,  and  without  such  permission,  go  within 

3  the  military  lines  of  the   enemy,  and    remain   there   more  than 

4  sixty  days,  he  shall  be  presumed  to  have  departed  from  the  Con- 

5  federate  States  within  the  meaning  of  this  act. 

1  Sec.   3.   If  any  person  has  heretofore  voluntarily,  and  with- 

2  out  such  permission,  departed  from  the  Confederate  States,  or 

3  gone  within  the   military   lines  of  the  enemy   for  the  purpose 

4  of  avoiding  military  service,  being,  at  the  time,  liable  to  mili- 

5  tary  service,  according  to  law,  or  being  now    liable  to  military 

6  service   according  to  law,  such  person  shall  be  also  treated  as 

7  an  alien  enemy,  and  his  property  shall  be  liable  to    sequestra- 

8  tion  and  sale  according  to  all  the  preceding  provisions,  unless 

9  such    person   shall  return    and    enter  upon    military    service 

11  according  to  law,  within    six  months  after  the   passage   of  this 

12  act. 

1  Sec.  4.  All  grants,  conveyances,   sales,  gifts  and  trasnfera 


s 

2  of  property  hereafter  made  by  any  person  who  shall  be  liable 

3  to  military  service,  at  the   time  of  making  the  same,  and  whose 

4  property  shall  become  liable  to  sequestration  under  this  act,  and 

5  all  liens  and  incumbrances   hereafter   created   on  his  property, 

6  when  he  is  liable  to  military  service,  shall  be  void  as  against  the 

7  claim  of  sequestration. 


Felix  Haxgrett  Collection 
Univexslty  of  Georgia  Libzaxi«» 


